Matthew 5:24

²⁴leave your gift there before the altar and go. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.w

Matthew 5 opens the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus' most concentrated teaching on the ethics of the kingdom of heaven. It begins with the Beatitudes, a series of blessings that invert worldly values, pronouncing favor on the poor in spirit, the meek, and the persecuted. Jesus then calls